To the chuds, there's a shadowy mysterious organization that consists of the bad billionaires but not the good ones and the bad corporations but not the good ones, that is conspiring to force them to eat the bugs as an insidious plot that can only be countered by rolling coal and :grill: and other reactionary virtue signaling.
How does one even start with that? I ask because I'm now hearing it offline, from old people no less. :grillman: Remember, these aren't people that would be receptive to "read theory" or anything like that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHJbSvidohg
The same way you would break down the contradictory nature of the "bad corp crony capitalism" arguments. Then you'd probably have to come up with some analogous arguments about why eating bugs isn't so bad, how it's a cultural thing, how we already consume bug adjacent organisms (literally eating oyster snot), how some integration of bugs might be necessary in the future, especially the way we're going, and how most Amerikkkan food is fucked presently anyways (and some of it might even be incorporating buggy elements already).
At which point you'll realize Amerikkka is fucked because you probably aren't going to convince many people, if any at all. So you just make petty small talk and hope for a JDPON order
oyster snot grosser than bugs tbh. If they eat shrimp, lobster, or any meat that came out of a factory then they have no reason other than personal weakness not to eat the land bugs.
You could remind them how much food coloring comes from bugs and that few people seem to mind when they eat Skittles and so on.
Is the blue coloring from bugs in the US? I figured that's only for countries that ban possible carcinogens and shit.
Red was from cochineal beetles at one point but I don't know if it still is.
Some is, like Murex Purple dye (which is from now-endangered shellfish and is almost impossible to get outside of a couple of traditional greek/italian craftspeople) it is prohibitively expensive to make the exact colour using synthetic dyes in a way that is safe for human consumption so it's used in food a lot, and that has revived the fabric industry as well.
Maybe they switched to something worse later. It happened with HFCS replacing sugar in :grillman: land.